A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.